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Arts
See also Art Therapy and Drama Therapy in the Health Care Center & Audio Tapes and Services and Music in the Bookstore
The Arts:
General Information
General Programs
- Hope University / Hi Hopes Fine-Arts Foundation
Non-profit, fine arts facility for developmentally-disabled adults with autism, Down syndrome, etc. Offers creative-arts therapy and focused music, art, and dance programs.
- Project Ability
One of Scotland's leading specialist arts organisations. Since 1984 we have been promoting equality of access to the arts by supporting people of all ages and abilities to take part in innovative visual arts projects.
- Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts
Open to all, its focus is people with disabilities and other members of the public who have previously found access to arts education difficult.
Drawing & Painting/ Visual Media
- Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA)
A worldwide association of artists that organizes a wide range of exhibitions, sells original art works and permits publishing houses to reproduce their works as art greeting cards and calendars
- Mouth and Foot Painting Artists USA
- Very Special Arts (VSA)
An international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the creative power in people with disabilities.
- Creative Growth Art Center
Creative Growth Art Center provides creative art programs, educational and independent living training, counseling and vocational opportunities for adults who are physically, mentally and emotionally disabled.
- Creativity Explored
Full time visual art center for people with disabilities in California
- The Studio — California
A fine arts program for people with developmental disabilities - provides a supportive and stimulating environment where our artists can express themselves creatively using a variety of media.
- Survivors Art Foundation
Dedicated to encourage healing through the arts, Survivors Art Foundation is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization committed to empowering trauma survivors with effective expressive outlets via internet art gallery, outreach programs, national exhibitions, publications and development of employment skills.
Exhibitions
Music
- Music for the Blind
Learn the basics of your favorite instrument without using Music or Braille notation! Each course is taught in an all-audio format on Tape or CD.
- Special Music by Special People — Illinois
Special Music by Special People is a Chicago Park District music program for people with
developmental disabilities (such as Down syndrome).
- Sign-Sation
Children's choir that performs songs in sign language as a community service to the deaf community and enlightenment of the hearing.
Theater
- AbleArts — Delaware
Our Abilities Eclipse Our Disabilities
- Access to Theatre Program (ATT)
- AMICI Dance Theatre Company
London-based: "AMICI Dance Theatre Company is a unique dance theatre company integrating able-bodied, disabled artists and performers.
- Famous People Players — Canada
This theatre group is dedicated to the integration of people who are developmentally handicapped. Through its life skills program, performers are given the conviction and skills to realize the full potential of their creative abilities.
- Cleveland Signstage Theatre — Ohio
Founded by one deaf actor and one hearing actor, and since that time has
established and maintained a reputation for bringing to the stage a new
expression in the theatre. Combining the beauty of American Sign Language, the
imagination of mime and the richness of theatrical text, SIGNSTAGE has
successfully nurtured a new art form by developing the distinctive techniques of
sign language theatre
- Sign Dance Theatre
Common Ground is a Cultural Performing Company who create unique performances and community workshops through the fusion of sign language, dance and physical theatre, which are accessible to all audiences.
- InterAct Children's Theatre for the Deaf
Providing fully accessible childrens' theatre for deaf and hearing audiences
- Kaleidoscope Theatre
Theatre company whose members include young people with Down's Syndrome.
- Deaf West Theatre
Providing an exhilarating theatrical experience for all audiences, regardless of hearing or signing ability.
- Heart 'n Soul Music Theatre — United Kingdom
Heart'n Soul is a dynamic arts organization offering creative opportunities to people with learning disabilities.
- National Theatre of the Deaf
Through NTD's signature style of visual language, American Sign Language, the audience enjoys a greater appreciation that no other theatre company can approach. Through its art, the NTD has created profound social change.
- Center for the Arts in Human Development
with Special Populations
An innovative program based at Concordia University in Montreal. The Centre utilizes the creative arts therapies and applies them to promote growth and development, in people with intellectual, developmental and mental health disabilities.
- Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts
A professional theater company that included actors with disabilities, Interact expanded its vision in 1996 to become a recognized center for both the performing and visual arts. Interact is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and a licensed day care facility.
- Hands On — New York
This service organization is dedicated to providing greater accessibility to arts and
cultural events for the Deaf and hard of hearing community.
- Kids on the Block, Inc.
The purpose of The Kids on the Block is to provide educational puppet programs which enlighten all children on the issues of disability awareness, medical/educational differences, and social concerns. By extensively researching and developing relevant and timely topics, The Kids on the Block addresses a wide range of issues that affect today's children.
- Mind the Gap
Aims to create access to participation in the arts for people who are excluded from mainstream provision and produce high quality arts experiences.
- Orpheus — United Kingdom
An inclusive performing arts centre; we aim to provide opportunities for personal development through the performing arts and other learning experiences for young disabled adults with a physical impairment; so that they can make informed choices about the future and gain the skills to live more independently in the community.
- Wild Swan Theatre: Dramatically Able
An Instructional Package for Purchase that Makes Drama Accessible to Those with Disabilities
Miscellaneous
- The Able Workshop
Disability and woodworking, resource of photos, tips, hints, and tricks of those with a handicap who found solutions to work shop barriers.
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